Accelerated degradation tests applied to software aging experiments

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 102-114

  Matias Jr , Rivalino ^a   Barbetta, Pedro Alberto ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^c   Filho, Paulo J Freitas ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated degradation tests; Design of experiments; Software aging; Web server software reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED AGING; ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTS; AGING EFFECTS; AGING FACTORS; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; DEPENDABLE SOFTWARES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; MAIN EFFECT; OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY; RELATIONSHIP MODEL; RUNNING APPLICATIONS; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE AGING; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STRESS LEVELS; SYSTEM FAILURES; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SYSTEM UNDER TEST; WEB SERVERS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEGRADATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TESTING; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77949270254     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2009.2034292     Document Type: Article

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